Melville-Whyte's Works. [our title]
- Hardcover
- London , n.d.
London, n.d.. New Edition (so stated on almost all title-pages). Hardcover. Very Good. 27 volumes. Contemporary 1/4 leather with marbled boards. Endpapers and page edges also marbled. 18 cm. Armorial Bookplate (Charles Fruen) on all front pastedowns. Type size is small but not tiny. Covers visibly scuffed but the set has a nice uniform look on the shelf. Joints and hinges sound, Internally nice with just a little age-toning. The set takes up about 68cm ((27 inches) on a shelf. No volumes numbers on these volumes and we did not find any online information about this edition to offer guidance. Here is a list of the titles numbered arbitrarily as originally found on our shelves: (1) Good For Nothing or All Down Hill (Longmans, Green -- hereafter LG); (2) Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (Ward, Lock -- hereafter WL); (3) The Interpreter: A Tale of the War (LG); (4) Digby Grand: An Autobiography (LG); (5) General Bounce or the Lady and the Locusts (LG); (6) Kate Coventry: An Autobiography LG); (7) The Queen' Maries: A Romance of Holyrood (LG); (8) The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judea (LG); (9) Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire (LG); (10) Roy's Wife -- Seventh edition --. (WL); (11) Market Harborough or, How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires (WL); (12) Rosine (WL); (13) "Bones and I; or the Skeleton at Home (WL); (14) Sarchedon. A Legend of the Great Queen (WL); (15) The White Rose (WL); (16) Riding Recollections (Chapman and Hall); (17) Tilbury Nogo; or, Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man (WL); (18) The True Cross. A Legend of the Church (WL); (19) The Brookes of Bridlemere (WL); (20) Black but Comely; or, the Adventures of Jane Lee (WL); (21) Sister Louise or the Story of a Woman's Repentance (WL); (22) Contraband or a Losing Hazard (WL);(23) Cerise. A Tale of the Last Century (WL); (24) M. or N. "Similia Similibus Curantur" (WL); (25) Uncle John a Novel (WL); (26) Songs and Verses (Eleventh Edition, with Numerous Additions) (WL); and (27) Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (WL).
Details
Title
Melville-Whyte's Works. [our title]
Author
Whyte-Melville, G. J.
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
London
Date
n.d.
Edition
New Edition (so stated on almost all title-pages)